If you want layers, silkies probably aren't your best choice. For maximum egg production, I'd go with Leghorns for white eggs, Red or black sexlinks for brown eggs. Personally I don't like the leghorns, they are very flighty, but they are the best layers for the feed they eat. There are plenty of other breeds that are good layers as well. Here's a list of good brown egg layers: Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, New Hampshire Reds, Plymouth Rocks, Black Australorps, Speckled Sussex, Wyandottes, etc.
White egg layers: Brown Leghorn, Anconas, Blue Andalusions, etc.
There are still many more!

hmm Im going to be breeding them for show. We don't eat that many eggs so even if they only lay every other day that would be fine. I use to raise them years ago . My mom has a thing about eggs not from the store. We couldn't eat them. So i couldn't remember how well they laid.

Mine laid real well for about a month and quit. That was 2 months ago. I got an egg last week and nothing since. They are pretty and they make good broodies but beyond that, you will starve. Don't count on eggs from them. That isn't what they are for. Get a sex link or two and that will feed you guys plenty. Keep the Silkies as wonderful pets and good broody hens.

I'm going against the trend here. My little silkie hen has been my best winter layer this year; probably 5 eggs a week. They are small, but they cook up just fine. That being said, last summer she was a broody little monster; 5 eggs, broody, no laying, 7 eggs, broody, no laying, 3 eggs....You get the picture. But everyone else was laying in the summer so her eggs weren't missed. I suspect that as soon as the weather is consistently warm, she will be a broody monster again.